Saturday, December 31, 2011

He's been thinking of taking the cure
Cause his drinking can make things obscure
While soaking in sherry
Did he choke his canary?
He's so stinking he wakes up unsure.

Think of this as a cautionary tale for New Year's Eve. Dan Duryea in Black Angel (Roy William Neill, 1946). With a little help and a title from old sot David Cairns. To watch a montage of Duryea going on a bender, go here and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Or see the whole movie on YouTube, here. Happy New Year, boozehounds!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Some stinker decided to throttle
A singer -- she died croaking glottal
The law first suspects
Her songwriting ex,
Slowly sinking inside of a bottle.

InBlack Angel (Roy William Neill, 1946), Dan Duryea is Martin Blair, an alcoholic songwriter whose wife has just been silenced. The spine of the plot is a nifty mysteryby Cornell Woolrich, but this is also the adaptation that best captures that noir author's doomed romanticism. Title by Norm Knott, aka"The Velvet Frog".

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

What more can one hope for or pray
Than a flick starring Dan Duryea
As snake, schmoe or cad,
Dan makes you feel glad
You went to the movies that day.

Dan Duryea never quite got his due, but here at Limerwrecks we can never get enough of his distinctive nasal tone and his sneering, sniveling and loose limbed, easy manner. Top: Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street; Above: Duryea gives Yvonne DeCarlo the once-over in Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross (from A Certain Cinema); Below: June Vincent and Duryea on the set of Roy William Neill's Black Angel.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

It's Christmas, and under the tree
The gift he would love ain't "pc"
For comfort and joy
You know he'd enjoy
Unzipping the young Janet Leigh.

In Holiday Affair (Don Hartman, 1949), Robert Mitchum wants to get Janet Leigh under the mistletoe -- or anywhere else for that matter. Here's wishing all of you your very own Bob or Janet to unwrap. A very merry Christmas from all of us at Limerwrecks!

Sunday, December 18, 2011

His stance against witches is firm
He's happiest watching them squirm
This grim horror show
Has no hint of the Poe
And no chance of a conqueror worm.

David CairnsVincent Price in Witchfinder General, aka The Conqueror Worm (1968). In an attempt to cash in on the earlier and highly successful Price Poe films, the alternate title -- and the poem by Edgar Allan Poe -- was slapped on for American distribution. Image source: vincentprice.org.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

When the strange Mr. Fell had remarried
He strained from the baggage he carried
To wed can be daunting
With dead wives a-haunting,
And a pain when one doesn't stay buried.

Vincent Price is Verden Fell, haunted by his first wife Ligeia, in The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman, 1965). This was the last of eight Poe adaptations by Corman. Title by David "Joker Face" Cairns. Image source: That Obscure Hollow.

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The Universal Frankenstein films...in limericks!

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This is a blog of limericks. What we have here are limericks -- lots and lots of limericks. I said limericks. Limericks, limericks, limericks. Plus limericks. In short, LimerWrecks is all about the limericks. And, if you act NOW, you'll get more limericks!

The Vincentennial

Our centennial tribute to Vincent Price began on May 17, 2011, here. This monster marathon was our part in the annual Countdown to Halloween, and it continued to crawl along until it breathed its last on March 17, 2012.

Munden's Bar

Read a comic by Surly Hack for free online. It's a Munden's Bar story called Ladeez Nite, and it was written by comics great John Ostrander. You'll find the story here

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